Serenade to Miette (2011)

Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!

This short animation set to Lenny Bruce's live monologue tells how the Lone Ranger hooks up with Tonto. With Bruce doing all the voices, this animation begins with local folks upset at the Lone Ranger because he won't stay around to be thanked after a good deed. So, he stays and finds he likes hearing "Thank you mask man." When their attention starts to shift elsewhere, he shocks and disgusts the townspeople with a final request. According to the cartoon’s producer John Magnuson, at early showings of this, gay audiences were upset by its apparent “fag-bashing”. And it’s true, part of the fun of the piece is just crying out “Masked man’s a fag”, scandalising and defacing the image of this all-American hero. But it’s within the larger context of Bruce’s analysis of heroism, and that the towns people reject the Masked Man is because of their prejudices, not because Bruce is asking us to endorse them. (from: http://ukjarry.blogspot.de/2010/01/352-lenny-bruce-thank-you-mask-man.html)

This traditionally animated film tells the journey of how a young boy's personal discovery affects the long-distance relationship he keeps with his mother.

A silent introspective film that examines same sex relationships and the risks of being yourself in a world that pushes for conformity.

Fans of “Calvin & Hobbes” should rejoice at this sweet reminder and tribute to the best comic strip of all time, using some familiar frozen faces.

Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But one day, after performing at a school assembly, Pat learned that his father could see him much more clearly than he realized.

A man handles his boyfriend's monthly change at the full moon with grace and tenderness. And silver chains.

The incredible skills of a man with corn.

Elmer, a sensitive duckling whose schoolmates tease him for being a sissy. However, after his unusual talents help him save a life, the other members of the flock learn to respect him as he is.

Una guerra entre dos grandes potencias está arrasando un planeta. Ambos bandos mantienen a sus respectivos satélites de comunicación orbitando en los límites de la atmósfera. Sus dos tripulantes se cruzan cada día a la misma hora desde sus respectivas naves, y toda la rivalidad del planeta no es suficiente para detener el amor que está a punto de surgir.

On a long and dusty road a routine cruise patrol takes a strange turn and spirals totally out of control.

Experimental short film by Michio Mihara.

Cansados de ser el chivo expiatorio de su comunidad, Ajar una serpiente y su amigo Pitt, el escorpión, deciden probar suerte en un cercano oasis habitado por la alta burguesía del desierto del Sahara y volver a encontrar a Eva, una hermosa serpiente de la que se enamoró Ajar locamente. Éste es el comienzo de divertidas aventuras que les conducirán a través del desierto en busca del amor y también a la búsqueda de ellos mismos.

In nakedyouth, Shishido takes us on a journey through the uncertainty and excitement of young love and homoerotic love. These gentle films quiver with sexual tension, which is linked to the natural world: trees reflecting on the surface of a pond, butterflies fluttering in the breeze.

Based freely on the play of the same title by Tennesee Willams. Some fragments of the original play are restaged frame by frame by new botanical performers.

A gentle tale of love told in halting words. A film about healing after profound loss. John and Michael pays homage to two men with Down's syndrome who shared an intimate and profoundly loving relationship that deeply affected the filmmaker. Animated with clay backlit on glass, the film shimmers like stained glass in motion. Narrator Brian Davis, also intellectually challenged, brings the men alive with great sensitivity. The audience shares in the various emotions that infuse their everyday living. John and Michael, by its artistry, rises above society's traditional ideas around disability, sexuality and death. When the heart is touched, differences melt. Love is what defines humanity.

In this animated short, a child only known as X is raised without gender norms as part of a social experiment. X is loved by its classmates but despised by adults because no one knows if it is a boy or girl. Based on the book "X, a Fabulous Child's Story" by Lois Gould.

The story of a gay cowboy couple in the Old West, dealing with tough guys, bandits, mad scientists, remote controlled flying guns, punk grandmas and long road trips with no destination!